Mihály Kállay | CV | Research | Publications | Teaching
Mihály Kállay
Personal data
- born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1974
- married with two children
Academic qualifications
- Master’s Degree in chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, 1998
- PhD in chemistry, Eötvös University, Budapest, 2001. Advisor: Professor Péter R. Surján
- doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc), 2013
- habilitation, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2014
Employment
- January 2002-September 2004: postdoctoral research associate in the group of Professor Jürgen Gauss, Institute for Physical Chemistry, University of Mainz, Germany
- October 2004-September 2007: research assistant professor, Department of Physical Chemistry and Materials Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- October 2007-June 2010: assistant professor
- July 2010-August 2015: associate professor
- From September 2015: full professor
- From October 2007: head of the Spectroscopy Laboratory
- From July 2015: head of the department
Research experience
- method development in quantum chemistry: semi-empirical methods, localized approaches, coupled-cluster and configuration interaction theory, analytic derivatives, multi-reference models, automated implementation of quantum chemical methods
- applications of quantum chemistry: fullerenes and fullerene nanostructures; highly accurate calculations of molecular properties; thermochemistry of molecules and radicals; atmospheric chemistry; electronic absorption, emission, vibrational, and NMR spectroscopy
Awards
- first prize at the National Student Association Conference of Hungary, 1997
- Pro Scientia Gold Medal (a youth award of the National Student Association of Hungary), 1997
- Excellent Student of the Eötvös University, 1998
- prize for the best poster presentation at the European Summerschool in Quantum Chemistry, Riolo Terme, Italy, 2000
- IBM-Zerner Fellowship at the 41st Sanibel Symposium, St. Augustine, USA, 2001
- fellowship of the Hungarian Scientific Research Fund (OTKA), 2004-2007
- “Bolyai” fellowship of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2007-2010
- Starting Independent Research Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), 2008-2013
- Pungor Ernő prize of the TU Budapest, 2009
- Medal of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science, 2009
- Lendület Grant of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2013-2018
Teaching experience
- Computational chemistry
- Fundamentals of quantum mechanics and spectroscopy
- Physical chemistry (thermodynamics, reaction kinetics, electrochemistry)
Publications
- 90 papers in international peer-reviewed journals with more than 2600 non-self citations
- co-author of one university text book
- 25 invited conference talks